“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by abalone on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:48PM (#9683224)

The key word here is "partly" Swift. I would not put it past Apple to use an intermediary framework that hosts a Swift runtime and calls into native Android APIs. That keeps the non-UI logic in one codebase.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by eropple on Monday June 08, 2015 @09:01PM (#9683487)

That's more or less what they do with iTunes, isn't it? I recall there being an incomplete library packaged with iTunes once upon a time (with stuff like a stub implementation of Grand Central Dispatch that was neither grand nor dispatching).

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by pcwalton on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @05:23PM (#9688642)

iTunes (used to, at least) have a lot of Mac OS 9/Carbon stuff partially ported to Windows, in fact.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by m_mueller on Monday June 08, 2015 @11:32PM (#9683932)

> stub implementation of Grand Central Dispatch that was neither grand nor dispatching

Thanks for the chuckle, almost r/programminghumor worthy ;-)

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